Curious

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.

II. Curious ·adj Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

III. Curious ·adj Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

IV. Curious ·adj Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying;

— sometimes with after or of.